JUST IN TIME FOR Christmas, www.cartt.ca has given away a 42” HDTV. We did the draw Friday evening and the winner is Nigel Fuller, regional vice-president, CHUM Television Ontario (right).
Second prize, the iPod nano, is going to Rick Fraser v-p marketing at Access Communications.
As for the 50 winners of signed copies of the children’s book M is for Maple. They are:
Brad Phillips, Citytv Vancouver Gordon Lee, CTV Specialty Victor Haddad, Milk River Cable Club, Georgina Schnubb, Masset-Haida TV Society Steve Ward, Grand Bend Cable TV Brett Manlove, CanWest MediaWorks Sam Fiander. Ramea Broadcasting Richard French, CRTC Glenn O’Farrell, CAB…
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TORONTO – GOLTV Canada announced Friday announced a carriage deal for the network with Rogers Cable. GOLTV is available on channel 428 to the majority of Rogers Digital Cable customers and is now in a free preview.
Rogers is the first operator in Canada to launch GOLTV, which is owned and operated in Canada by Insights Sports Ltd.
GOLTV is Canada’s first 24-hour soccer network, airing more than 1,500 games a year, with live game action from league powerhouses Spain, Italy and Brazil.
GOLTV also features league action from Uruguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications issued a press release Monday in response to a scary story that appeared in the Saturday Globe and Mail.
The Globe story described an incident in 1998 which involved the "cloning" of analog cell phones of senior Rogers’ executives (including CEO Ted Rogers). The facts are as follows, says the Rogers release:
“The cloning incident referred to occurred seven years ago on a single Rogers’ executive phone. At that time, cloning was an industry-wide problem which has been removed as a result of the industry move to digital technology. In fact, the vast majority of…
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THE WAY NEW CHANNELS serving niche after niche after have succeeded on both sides of the border should mean that no one will question any longer whether or not we “need” a fishing channel, or a soccer channel or a gaming channel.
And Insight Sports, the owners of World Fishing Network and GOLTV Canada – and operators of Canadian Gaming Television – is banking on the fact it has tapped into a trio of still underserved niches.
It’s not like Insight doesn’t know the TV industry. It’s not like the networks aren’t very well financed, either. Insight Sports has…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Wireless phone number portability will come to Canada six months sooner than the major wireless carriers said they could make it happen.
In a decision released late this afternoon, the CRTC is requiring Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in most of Canada. Today’s decision follows a public notice issued on September 16, 2005, in which the Commission invited comments on several issues related to the implementation of WNP.
The decision will see Canadians be able to take their phone numbers with them, no matter for which wired or…
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TORONTO – As a bit of a political junkie, I’ve got to say that this is a cool use of the video on demand platform.
Rogers Communications announced today the addition of election-related information to its Rogers On Demand service in Ontario. As the first service offering of its kind in Canada and available only on Rogers, "Election On Demand 2006" will feature a wide array of information including content provided by the federal political parties who are running candidates in Ontario, and information from CPAC and Rogers Television.
As a part of the EOD service offering, the "Leaders…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable Communications announced Portuguese channel RTPi has been added to its list of multicultural programming.
From now until January 4th, Rogers Digital Cable customers can enjoy a free preview on channel 648 in Ontario.
RTPi is broadcast live from Portugal and provides an extensive mix of television from channels such as RTP1, RTP2, RTP Madeira, RTP Azores and RTP Africa. Novellas, sports, news and documentaries are all in Portuguese 24-hours-a day.
With the addition of RTPi, Rogers continues to offer the most multicultural programming in 20 different languages on 40 channels.
"As the diversity and size…
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TORONTO – Rogers today served 450 hot meals during its 6th annual holiday dinner for school children living in less fortunate areas in the Greater Toronto Area.
This year, Rogers returned to Regent Park/Duke of York Public School to serve a hot meal to approximately 450 students and their families.
Rogers employees, and the teachers of Regent Park/Duke of York Public School, have come together to serve a hot nutritious meal for the students and their families. In addition, Rogers has also purchased books specific to each student’s reading level in support of the school’s literacy program.
“According to…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications long-time chief financial officer, Alan Horn, will step down in April to become vice-chairman of Rogers Communications and president and CEO of Rogers Telecommunications Limited.
Rogers Telecommunications is the holding company of the Rogers family’s private investments.
Forty-year Rogers veteran Phil Lind, who is currently vice-chairman, is not going anywhere by the way, the company will just have two vice-chairs.
Horn (left) will be replaced as CFO by Bill Linton, formerly president of Call-Net, who re-takes a role he once held when Rogers was a far smaller company. The switch is effective April 25,…
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IT IS NOW AS IT WAS in the beginning: If you’re involved in producing programming or commercials in the high definition format, you’re most likely still trying to make video look like film.
But today, almost exactly 16 years after Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre was on the receiving end of the first major, mainstream HD broadcast seen in Canada – a fight transmitted from Las Vegas pitting Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran – the momentum in the battle for TV screens here is beginning to favour video.
Producers are becoming accustomed to the idea of originating content on…
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